Pragmatistic Anthropology

2018, 192 S., geb. mit Schutzumschlag

ISBN: 978-3-95743-110-3

EUR 14,90

Leading one’s life as a person
is an essential feature of our human existence which is constitutively
characterized by finiteness, sociality and vulnerability. Within the framework
of a pragmatistic anthropology central features of our being persons (i.e.
personal identity, self-consciousness, freedom, autonomy and responsibility) are
made explicit in this study. The such unfolded conception is anthropological in
the sense of being restricted to the human life-form. The explication is
pragmatistic in a double sense: Firstly, action is taken as a complex and not
reducible basic feature; secondly, the study is committed to the pragmatistic
model of justification. Leading one’s life as a human person, this is the
study’s central thesis, is realized in constellations of recognition
(intersubjective or institutionally framed). These can be made explicit as basic
grammar of our evaluative Praxis within an ascriptivist framework.